"Well, to tell the truth, I did a little."
"Mr. Montgomery, in such a practice as mine, intimately associated as it is with the highest and most progressive elements of our small community, it is impossible——"
But just then the tentative bray of a cornet-player searching for his keynote jarred upon their ears, and an instant later the Wilson Colliery brass band was in full cry with, "See the Conquering Hero Comes," outside the surgery window. There was a banner waving, and a shouting crowd of miners.
"What is it? What does it mean?" cried the angry doctor.
"It means, sir, that I have, in the only way which was open to me, earned the money which is necessary for my education. It is my duty, Doctor Oldacre, to warn you that I am about to return to the University, and that you should lose no time in appointing my successor."
THE END
Transcriber Notes:
Changes:
page 44
Original: "Montgomery looked askance
Replaced: Montgomery looked askance
Unchanged:
page 60
Original: "Break away! Break away?" cried the referee.
retained the ?, perhaps ! intended
page 66
a _Deux ex machinâ_ at so dramatic a moment.
perhaps intended Deus - left as clearly printed